[JennysCool]

DAMN nice thing to find in a dumpster! Congrats!

Canarble Cabinet?

[DocRock]

The circular templates are for six of something of three different sizes. Glasses for a place setting for six maybe?

*guessing*

[Uriah_lost]

Oh man! That's the HAUNTED CABINET!!! Get rid of it now!! It ruined my life!

[MarineBrat]

It looks very similar to something that would hold telescope eyepieces. Telescope eyepieces commonly come in three barrel sizes, .965 inch, 1.25 inch and 2 inch. Your round holes are much too big, but that was all I could come up with. :)

[Number57]

BTTT

[Jeff Chandler]

That is an antique Amish missile launcher.

[lula]

It looks like something you would find in a doctors office. Holders for containers, cotton balls, tongue depressors????

[martin_fierro]

I'm no expert (when has that ever stopped anyone around here from dispensing their $0.02?), but yeah -- that definitely looks like it could be a smallish liquor cabinet, where hiball glasses were stored/drinks mixed on top, and the bottles stored on the bottom.

Looks like there's a circular liquid stain or two from a bottle on the bottom shelf:

Compare its basic form against this "Vintage Japanese Liquor Bar Cabinet" or even this antique Chinese liquor cabinet in black lacquer.

As to price, here are some current eBay auctions

[JRios1968]

That's my apothecary cabinet from Pottery Barn!

[leilani]

I vote for liquor cabinet, definitely.Note the racks for bar towels. Here's a chippendale style one for comparison:

No markings on the bottom of yours at all?

[battlegearboat]

That, my friend is a ship's bar.

It and several like it are to be found in the Captain's Cabin of merchant vessels.

I'm somewhat of an authority on this matter, as I have been in countless captain's cabins, conducting official business, and have admired many a liquor cabinet.

I was even given a small one by a grateful ship's master after I returned his drunken crew back to his ship.